December 12th 2015
stargaze orchestral 2015 @ Volksbühne - Berlin, Germany
orchestral performance
 | 01. | Popcorn Superhet Receiver |
| 02. | Suite from There Will Be Blood |
stargaze Ensemble
Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop
André de Ridder - conductor
Saturday night (12 December), delves deep into the folk of Eastern Europe — and takes the audience into the world of Bela Bartók and György Ligety (as well as Jonny Greenwood).
When Bartók's "Three Village Scenes" is collaged, or rather infiltrated, by the indie folk band A Hawk And A Hacksaw, a circle is closed that has already been drawn at many stargaze events in recent years. According to de Ridder's reading, Bartók is nothing more than the tonal and rhythmic language of folk in a different guise. A Hawk And A Hacksaw from New Mexico, in turn, have toured South-Eastern Europe and work much like Bartók: they go into the villages, play for the local folk and adjust themselves to suit them.
With stargaze, and especially this Weekender, it's always about the permeability of pop and classical music. György Ligety's Cello Concerto for solo cello and a for the evening specifically assembled allstargaze Orchestra (feat. Solistenensemble Kaleidoscope) in turn refers to the evening’s international guest star, Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead. He has always stressed that Ligety and Bartók have been decisive influences of his compositions and film scores. To be performed on the Friday night is his suite "There Will Be Blood", composed for the eponymous film by Paul Thomas Anderson.
Indeed, the evening is also committed another narrative: the film score. Namely, the Cello Concerto by Ligety is familiar to us from pop culture as it underscored but the eight-minute break-in to the warehouse in Michael Mann's film "Heat". Without a word being spoken, during the scene we hear the entire first movement of Ligety's work. This is reminiscent of Kubrick; cinema and folk as narrative lines amalgamating in an orchestral context.
Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop
André de Ridder - conductor
Saturday night (12 December), delves deep into the folk of Eastern Europe — and takes the audience into the world of Bela Bartók and György Ligety (as well as Jonny Greenwood).
When Bartók's "Three Village Scenes" is collaged, or rather infiltrated, by the indie folk band A Hawk And A Hacksaw, a circle is closed that has already been drawn at many stargaze events in recent years. According to de Ridder's reading, Bartók is nothing more than the tonal and rhythmic language of folk in a different guise. A Hawk And A Hacksaw from New Mexico, in turn, have toured South-Eastern Europe and work much like Bartók: they go into the villages, play for the local folk and adjust themselves to suit them.
With stargaze, and especially this Weekender, it's always about the permeability of pop and classical music. György Ligety's Cello Concerto for solo cello and a for the evening specifically assembled allstargaze Orchestra (feat. Solistenensemble Kaleidoscope) in turn refers to the evening’s international guest star, Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead. He has always stressed that Ligety and Bartók have been decisive influences of his compositions and film scores. To be performed on the Friday night is his suite "There Will Be Blood", composed for the eponymous film by Paul Thomas Anderson.
Indeed, the evening is also committed another narrative: the film score. Namely, the Cello Concerto by Ligety is familiar to us from pop culture as it underscored but the eight-minute break-in to the warehouse in Michael Mann's film "Heat". Without a word being spoken, during the scene we hear the entire first movement of Ligety's work. This is reminiscent of Kubrick; cinema and folk as narrative lines amalgamating in an orchestral context.
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